Dr. Alex Curmi

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2,747 appearances 18 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 13 Aug

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 18 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 9.

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The Thinking Mind: Mental Health & Personal Growth · E185 | How Psychiatry Became Fixated on Chemical Imbalance (w/ Prof. Justin Garson) · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

And from different conversations I've had, I would say firstly that voice-verified

It's surprising how many inpatient staff, you know, psychiatric nurses, of course, psychiatrists, um, don't have an actual uh training, enough psychological training to understand, you know, verbal de-escalation, how to create a really psychologically safe containing environment versus a actually more sort of conflict uh laden environment, often quite an adversarial environment, which you think of something like voice-verified

paranoia at the milder end and then psychosis. voice-verified

Often it is a response to a feeling of a lack of safety. voice-verified

Often people feel paranoid, for example, when they voice-verified

emigrate, go to different countries, are socially isolated, uh, when they're poorer socioeconomically, so they feel more under threat. voice-verified

And I think this is where you can understand something like scos psychosis or schizophrenia adaptively, at least at the milder end, people become paranoid when they're by themselves and they feel unsafe. voice-verified

Now that could then become a positive feedback loop, I think, which could become something like psychosis. voice-verified

But whether you're dealing with someone voice-verified

um paranoid or someone with full blown psychosis, a safe, very psych psychologically safe environment is very helpful. voice-verified

And I think um voice-verified

Often because psychiatric staff just don't have that training, they're just not as good as they could be at creating that sense of safety. voice-verified

And then the second thing which I learned talking to someone who is responsible for the way they work in Treste Italy. voice-verified

So Treste Italy is famous for having a very effective mental health system which relies on sort of less mandatory medication, less sectioning, stuff like that, is the integration of mental health. voice-verified

And social services. voice-verified

Which I think is super good idea and something we should be thinking about because what that allows you to do is to integrate people who have mental health difficulties. voice-verified

More into society. voice-verified

So if you have a mental health problem interested, they say, How can we get you in the community? voice-verified

How can we get you working? voice-verified

How can we get you feeling valuable to others? voice-verified

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